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Bob how sad and awful that you can’t appreciate the gifts We Americans have contributed to our nation. It’s the thoughts and actions of people like you that lead to the creation of this great nation. Our founders wanted nothing else other than to get away from the type of bigotry and hatred of people like you. They loved God enough to know that you are his child as well and being this ensured your voice will be allowed to be heard. Say what you want but you know you like our style. M.J. pick one Jordan, Jackson, Action, Tiger (He's still your boy-Just mad he getting more white girls than you), Hank Aaron, Will Smith, Queen Latifah(Danna Owens), Jay-Z, Boyonce', James Brown, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Ashford & Simpson, Barry Gordy, Oprah, Bill Cosby, Richard Prior, Eddie Murphy, Tavis Smiley, Ed Bradley, Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Jamie Foxx, Hattie McDaniel, Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson), even Three Six Mafia ( DJ Paul, Juicy J, and Crunchy Black) all Oscar winners.
This is only a few I could go on for days. So in the future Appreciate not Hate.

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Just some info for you Bill Schier: There is plenty more here: http://www.aaregistry.com/index.php

On this date in 1897, the Ice Cream Scoop was patented. Alfred L. Cralle, an African-American inventor, was its creator. The ice cream scoop’s patent number is 576,395.

Wentworth Cheswell was born on this date in 1746.He was a Black businessman and politician.
He was a justice of the peace and yeoman landowner, and like Paul Revere, Cheswell, made a midnight ride on horseback to warn New Hampshire residents of coming of British soldiers.

George Washington Carver a Black man emerged as a pioneer in agricultural research. He found dozens of uses for chemicals he extracted from peanuts and potatoes. His research led to the development of hundreds of products, including ink, shampoo, and peanut butter. He later became a vocal supporter of growing peanuts as a source of protein.
During the 20th century, several African-American chemists have made important offerings in physical, organic, nuclear, and analytical chemistry.
Lloyd A. Hall, president of the Griffith Chemical Company, discovered important food preservatives. Percy L. Julian developed a way to remove and prepare soybean products as cortisone, to treat arthritis, and an extract used in the treatment of glaucoma. Julian registered more than 130 chemical patents during the course of his career.

Other African-American chemist includes Jane Wright, (shown) former director of the Cancer Research Foundation, who formulated mithramycin, a drug that has proved promising in fighting cancer. William A. Lester Jr., a theoretical chemist who did research on the troubles of high-velocity molecular collisions, was chosen to manage the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry. James A. Harris helped to discover Rutherfordium (atomic number 104) and Hafnium (atomic number 105).

Since 1916, when St. Elmo Brady became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, Blacks have played an increasingly important role in laboratories and lecture halls. Current data indicates that African-Americans comprise nearly 4 percent of Ph.D. students in chemistry.

From George W. Carver,
to Ralph G. Gardner, to Dr. Shirley Jackson, to Mark Dean the number of Black chemists and scientist is increasing.

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Bill,

You don't have anything better to do with your life than to visit Black Voices. If you can't stand Black people so much, why are you here? Could it be your inferiority complex? Frances Cress Welsing spoke about people just like you. FACE IT YOU HAVE NO LIFE. You're pathetic. And if you really want to know what Africans contributed to this world, why don't you go back to ancient history and on up to the present. Why do you think researchers can't get enough of Africa? They are over there studying the people and studying the continent where it all began. Once again, you're a pathetic loser. You're hilarious actually, because I see your name in just about every single BV post. You know it hurts your very core that you have not achieved even one tenth of what some of the greats have and that you don't embody the essence of the African. Come on now, you got to do better than that. Poof be gone.

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You Bill are just a hateful person and I agree with Laura completely if you hate Black people so why are you here on "Black Voices"? My point to you was that Blacks have been contributing to the building of America and the world forever we have been inventing and improving on inventions for the good of humanity. But you would not understand that.George Washington Carver said:God Gave Them To Me
Carver did not patent or profit from most of his products. He freely gave his discoveries to mankind. Most important was the fact that he changed the South from being a one-crop land of cotton, to being multi-crop farmlands, with farmers having hundreds of profitable uses for their new crops. "God gave them to me" he would say about his ideas, "How can I sell them to someone else?" In 1940, Carver donated his life savings to the establishment of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, for continuing research in agriculture.

Honors and Awards
George Washington Carver was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. In 1923, he received the Spingarn Medal given every year by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1939, he received the Roosevelt medal for restoring southern agriculture. On July 14, 1943, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt honored Carver with a national monument dedicated to his accomplishments. The area of Carver's childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri preserved as a park, this park was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States.
"He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." - Epitaph on the grave of George Washington Carver.

Blacks have always and still are developing. inventing and improving on ideas for the good of "Mankind" even you.
Besides Bill you know you originated from Africa right? New research published in the journal Nature (19 July) has proved the single origin of humans theory by combining studies of global genetic variations in humans with skull measurements across the world. The research, at the University of Cambridge and funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), represents a final blow for supporters of a multiple origins of humans theory.
So as Laura said poof be gone with your hate...brother...;))

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Bill,shut up already.Why don't you go and find someone who would actually listen to your hebetudinous comments in which no one on this site really cares.You obvioulsy feel very inferior and threatened to see black people strive in various fields which most white poeple do.In short,you're the one that's pathetic, posting multiple ignorant comments.

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